Clinician support: five years of lessons learned.

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Clinician support: five years of lessons learned.

April 15, 2015

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This magazine article relates insights from an academic health care system that developed a second victim assistance initiative which resulted in increased awareness of the problem and brought peers together to provide support for clinicians who experience psychological complications following an incident.

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